Arni Magnus Bjornson

Grand Forks, ND

1933, 766, Oreville, F-16,

Arni Magnus Bjornson, 93, formerly of Bismarck, Walhalla and Mountain, died January 17, 2004, in Minneapolis. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Vikur Lutheran Church, Mountain.

Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Jensen-Askew Funeral Home, Cavalier.

Arni, the grandson of Icelandic pioneers, was born in Mountain, N.D., March 22, 1910. He graduated from Walsh County Agricultural School in Park River, served in the Civilian Conservation Corps, operated a turkey farm near Mountain, and was a Deputy State Fire Marshal of North Dakota. Arni spoke fluent Icelandic and loved all things Icelandic. When he visited Iceland in 1998, he saw the farms of his grandparents.

He enjoyed travel, photography and most of all his family.

He is survived by his wife, Agnes; his brother, Kris and his wife, Mildred; his sons, Kay and his wife, Marilyn, Roseburg, Ore., Boyd and his wife, Vicki, Bismarck, and Mark and his wife, Pattie, Minnetonka, Minn.; his daughters, Isabel Dianne (Sido) Damer and her husband, Lewis, St. Paul, Minn., Marly Hunton and Robert, Beaverton, Ore., and (Gudy) Ann Hobbs and her husband, Howard, Golden Valley, Minn.; 22 grandchildren, aged 38 to 2 years old; and 14 great-grandchildren, the youngest of whom was born two days before his death.

He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, Sig and Fred; one sister, Anna; and their spouses.

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